Water-proof collar or cuff



(No Model.)

H. C. MILLIGAN. WATER. PROOF COLLAR OR OUFF.

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HENRY O. MILLIGAN, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

WATER-PaocFccLLAa oa CUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,137, dated February 11, 1890.

Application filed July 6. 1889. Serial No. 316,704. (No model.)

To @Z whom it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, HENRY C. MILLIGAN, a citizen of the United. States, residing at SouthA Orange, in the county ofEssex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collars or Cuffs, of which the following' is a description.

My invention relates to improvements in collars or cuffs of zylonite or other analogous waterproof material., the object being to provide such collars and cuffs with a permanent fastening medium, and thus avoid the necessity for button-holes.

To this end my invention consists in a collar orcuff composed of zylonite orothera'nalogous water-proof material provided. with a permanent fastening comprising two parts or members, one of which is connected to one ilap of the collar or cuff and is adapted to cngage the other member, which is connected to the other flap of the collar or cuff to lock the two togethen My invention also includes a buttoirshaped extension to one member by means of which the collar or cuff can be attached to the shirt.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a perspective view of my improvement secured to a collar. Fig. 2 represents my improvement secured to a cuff. Fig. 3 shows the fastener separated into its parts. Fig. t is a top view of the fastener connected, the collar or cuff being shown in section; and Figs6 5 and 6 represent a modification of my invention, which I prefer to use for the top button of a cuff.

In carrying out my invention I prefer to employ, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, a button composed of the two parts or members a l). The part o. comprises a shank a,which extends through the collar or cuff and is riveted thereto by the flanges a2 a3. The shank a terminates at one end in al button-shaped extension a* and at the other end in a stud c5,

In the modification shown in Figs. e and 6 the button-shaped extension a is omitted. The part b comprises a shank b, which en` tends through the collar or cultl and is riveted thereto by means of a button-shaped head h2 and a iiange if, centrally recessed at b4. The two parts a l) are engaged or disengaged by forcing the stud a5 into or out of the recess b4.

My invention is designed to overcome the disadvantages attending the present construction of zylonite or other water-proof detachable collars and cuffs, and which lies in the fact that as at present constructed they are formed with button-holes in their meeting edges, which button-holes are intended to receive some sort of fastening` device made separable from the collar or cnif. The ordinary button-hole in this class of goods soon becomes distorted or broken, and in view of the peculiar character of the material of which the collar or cuff is made the auxiliary or A separate fastening device is liable when in place to produce a disagreeable rattling noise and tend to discolor the cuff or collar.

IV ith my improvement I provide an article of manufacture which overcomes entirely all the disadvantages experienced in the class of goods referred to, and I produce a detachable collar or cuit' which is provided with perma nent fastening devices which form a part of the structure as a whole, which are never displaced, and which subserve in a much betn ter manner the function. of the ordinary but tonholes.

Iam of course aware that it is not new to provide a steel collar with a metallic stud and eye similar to a corsetfastening, and that the collar portion of ladies dresses and military coats have been provided with permanentlyattached means for securing the meeting edges, and that the ilexible wrist portion of gloves have been provided with permanent fastening devices. I therefore do not wish to make any such broad claim as would cover any such devices, myinvention relating solelv to that class of goods `or articles of wearingapparel which are made separable from other garments and are specifically known and des ignated in the trade as collars and cuffs lVhat I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-ters Patenaisw I. As a new article of manufacture, a detachable water-proof cuff or collar provided at each of its meeting or overlapping edges wit-h a permanent fastening device'interlocking the one with the other for the purpose of connectin such overlapping edges in contra- IOO distinction to and in lieu of the usual buttonflap of the collar and adapted to engage the holes, substantially as hereinloefore set forth. first-named member to unite the ends of the 2. Aoollar of Water-proof material provided Collar and adapt it to be `applied to a shirt, with a permanent fastening which takes the substantially as described. 15 5 place of button-holes and a stud, the said In testimony whereofV I have hereunto set fastening comprising two parts or members, my hand this 5th day of July, A. D. 1889. e one of which is. rigidly and permanently ixed to one flap of the collar and is constructed HENRY C. MILLIGAN. j with an extension a4 to engage a button-hole Vitnessesz` 1o in a shirt and the other member of which is J. H. CARMIENCKE,

rigidly and permanently fixed to the other FREDERIC OARRAGAN. 

